SCIPIO ON THE EXPULSION OF THE CARTHAGINIANS FROM SPAIN IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE ABOVE VICTORY
When every one complimented Scipio after he had driven the Carthaginians from Iberia,Scipio’s idea of transferring the war to Africa. and advised him straightway to take some rest and ease, as having put a period to the war, he answered that he “congratulated them on their sanguine hopes; for himself he was now more than ever revolving in his mind how to begin the war with Carthage. Up to that time the Carthaginians had waged war upon the Romans; but that now fortune put it in the power of the Romans to make war upon them....”
SCIPIO’S VISIT TO SYPHAX, KING OF MASAESYLIANS.
See Livy, 28, 17, 18
In his conversation with Syphax, Scipio, who was eminently endowed by nature in this respect,Scipio’s influence over Syphax. conducted himself with so much kindness and tact, that Hasdrubal afterwards remarked to Syphax that “Scipio appeared more formidable to him in such an interview than in the field....”